May 27, 1920

Permit this only on condition:
1) Special responsibility of 
defined local comrades.
2) Special measures toward disarmament.
3) Do not release especially dangerous [persons] (lists through the Cheka).

# TELEGRAM TO THE MANAGEMENT OF THE SORMOVO WORKS
May 28, 1920

Cognizant of the Sormovo Works' heavy burden of military orders, the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the National Economy and the Chairman of the Council of Defense nevertheless propose that you undertake to execute the order from the Chief Fuel Administration of February 17 for a caterpillar peat crane, according to the drawings you have developed, and to execute it in the shortest possible time. Report your acceptance of this execution by telegraph with a copy to the Chief Fuel Administration.

Chairman of the Council of Defense
Lenin

Printed from the original signed by V. I. Lenin.

* In its telegram the Revolutionary Military Council of the Caucasian Front raised the question of the release from prisoner-of-war camps and the demobilization to their homes of captured Cossacks — enlisted men and non-commissioned officers of the Kuban Army: officers were proposed to be assigned to the disposition of the front headquarters.

# FROM THE RESOLUTIONS OF THE COUNCIL OF LABOR AND DEFENSE
May 28, 1920

ON THE REPORT OF THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT OF EDUCATION

a) Charge the State Publishing House with presenting to the Council of Labor and Defense reports on measures for reducing publication in general in favor of publications necessary for the Western Front.

b) Draw the attention of the People's Commissariat of Education to strengthening control over the swift and precise execution of its resolutions concerning aid to the Western Front.

c) Propose to the People's Commissariat of Education to render every possible assistance to the military authorities in the sense of applying voluntary service and to adopt all measures within its power in this regard.

# ON INTENSIFYING THE PRODUCTION OF MINE BARRIERS

a) Propose to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic to second from the Caucasian Front and fleet and from the V Army 300 qualified workers for assignment to mines-production works.

The Industrial-Military Council shall present to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic a personal list of unqualified workers at mines-production works located on the Western and Southwestern Fronts.

The Revolutionary Military Council must carry out the seconding of the latter in the case when this does not cause special damage to the front.

The report of the Revolutionary Military Council to be designated in three weeks.

b) Obligate the Petrograd Soviet of the National Economy and the Labor Committee to transfer to the works executing orders for mines workers from works not working for defense or executing orders which can temporarily be postponed.